Re: PEDANTRY: Hackers/Crackers

It appears as if the sentience Eliezer pointed out:
||I beg your pardon. "Hacker" is an ancient and honorable term referring|to computer programmers supreme in their art. The vast majority of the|losers altering people's Web pages are "kiddie crackers" armed with|shell scripts.||Of course, I will admit that some crackers are hackers as well... the|very, very few creative and intelligent people who, for some reason or|other, focus their talents on finding wholly new ways to illegally break|into systems. (One way to tell who these people are: They know how to
|spell. No real hacker, cracker or not, is going to be anything less
|than a fanatic precisionist.)

A cracker is an individual who attempts to access computer systems
without authorization. These individuals are often malicious, as
opposed to hackers, and have many means at their disposal for
breaking into a system. See also: hacker, Computer Emergency
Response Team, Trojan Horse, virus, worm.

A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the
internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in
particular. The term is often misused in a pejorative context,
where "cracker" would be the correct term. See also: cracker.